Your advice sounds reasonable, but closing my Gmail browser window is not an option for me. Most of my tasks require sending emails or searching for old ones, s

Your advice sounds reasonable, but closing my Gmail browser window is not an option for me. Most of my tasks require sending emails or searching for old ones, so I use Gmail frequently. And every time I see an email in my inbox, I find it hard to resist opening and replying to it. I've been using Inbox Pause since I discovered it at the start of last month (I use Baydin's Boomerang tool too). I now go through emails twice a day. This has several advantages: (i) I go through my inbox with more urgency, because my mindset seems to be different when I have many emails to process—especially because I start the final session about 30 minutes before leaving work. (ii) Long discussion threads appear all in one go, rather than being "drip-fed" to me. (iii) It's impossible to receive more than two replies from me in one day – which I'm happy with, because anything that requires more than two replies may be more efficiently handled with a phone call. Either way, it helps me to spend more time doing my more-important tasks.